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Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. The Barbie doll was first sold on March 9, 1959
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.
In 1912 there was a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
Seattle’s Fremont Bridge rises up and down more than any drawbridge in the world.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.
There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world.
Most collect calls are made on father's day.
The first automobile race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 7 1/2 miles per hour.
Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, most of it paper.
Women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of all Americans households.
A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Only female mosquitos bite, and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.
The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.
Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.
Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency.
For some time Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face, explaining: "It does not matter, my audience sees only my right side."
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared one way or another on television.
70% of all boats sold are used for fishing.
Studies have shown that children laugh an average of 300 times/day and adults 17 times/day.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The strongest muscle (relative to size) in the body is the tongue.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'
In 1986 Congress & President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 99-359, which changed Daylight Saving Time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April. It was estimated to save the nation about 300,000 barrels of oil each year by adding most of the month April to D.S.T.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Odds of being killed by lightning? 1 in 2million
Odds of being killed in a car crash? 1 in 5,000
Odds of being killed by falling out of bed? 1 in 2million
Odds of being killed in a plane crash? 1 in 25 million.
About a dozen people are killed annually by Vending Machine's falling on them. Nearly all while trying to shake merchandise out of them.
Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).
The Earth experiences about 50,000 Earth quakes per year and is hit by lightning 100 times a second.
Every year about 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.
If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building sways several feet to either side.
The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.
Length of beard an average man would grow if he never shaved 27.5 feet
400-quarter pounders can be made from 1 cow.
A full-loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least 20 minutes to stop.
Hong Kong holds the most Rolls Royce’s per capita.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
When a Hawaiian woman wears a flower over her left ear, it means that she is not available.
The only two nations whose names begin with an "A", but don't end in an "A" are Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
The following sentence: 'A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.' Contains the nine different pronunciations of "ough" in the English Language.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.
The average person will accidentally eat just under a pound of insects every year.
The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space.
The amount of computer Memory required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.
The average North American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span.
Mount Olympus Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount Everest.
2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
If done perfectly, a rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than any other movie ever made.
60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm.
3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.
There's a systematic lull in conversation every 7 minutes.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State building.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches.
In the Philippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
The crack of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom, since the tip breaks the sound barrier.
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
There are more psychoanalysts per capita in Buenos Aires than any other place in the world.
The average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.
CBS' "60 Minutes" is the only TV show without a theme song/music.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
On average, Americans' favorite smell is banana.
If one spells out numbers, they would have to count to One Thousand before coming across the letter "A".
3.9% of all women do not wear underwear.
"Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a $230,000 research project proposed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to study the various ways children fall off bicycles.
Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
The only real person to ever appear on a pez dispenser was Betsy Ross.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes.
In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
Thomas Edison, acclaimed inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of the dark.
The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Tigers not only have striped fur, they have striped skin!
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z; hence the name "OZ."
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The longest word comprised of one row on the keyboard is: TYPEWRITER
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
The word "dexter" whose meaning refers to the right hand is typed with only the left hand.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. Probably no one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
Van Gogh only sold one painting when he was alive.
A standard slinky measures 87 feet when stretched out.
The eyes of a donkey are positioned so that it can see all four feet at all times.
The average lifespan of an eyelash is five months.
Every acre of American crops harvested contains 100 pounds of insects.
The word Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.
You spend 7 years of your life in the bathroom.
Simplistic passwords contribute to over 80% of all computer password break-ins.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they can be easily confused at a crime scene.
The mask worn by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
When the French Academy was preparing its first dictionary, it defined "crab" as, "A small red fish, which walks backwards." This definition was sent with a number of others to the naturalist Cuvier for his approval. The scientist wrote back, "Your definition, gentlemen, would be perfect, only for three exceptions. The crab is not a fish, it is not red and it does not walk backwards."
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
The very first song played on MTV was 'Video Killed The Radio Star' by the Buggles.
William Marston engineered one of the earliest forms of the polygraph in the early 1900's. Later he went on to create the comic strip Wonder Woman, a story about a displaced Amazon princess who forces anyone caught in her magic lasso to tell the truth.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
The first live couple shown in bed together on prime time televsion was Herman and Lilly Munster.
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.
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